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    <h1>BendTech Terms of Service</h1>
    <p><strong>Welcome to BendTech! Before using this service,
    you must agree to the following terms:</strong></p>

    <h2>Terms of Service</h2>
    <h3>Description of Service.</h3>
    <p>BendTech ("The Service") is a web publishing service.  You will be
    responsible for all of your content and activities.  You understand and
    agree that the Service is provided to you on an AS IS and AS AVAILABLE
    basis. BendTech disclaims all responsibility and liability for the
    availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Service or any
    other software. BendTech also reserves the right to modify, suspend or
    discontinue the Service with or without notice at any time and without any
    liability to you.</p>
    <p>You must be at least thirteen (13) years of age to use the Service.
    BendTech reserves the right to refuse service to anyone at any time without
    notice for any reason.</p>

    <h3>Proper Use.</h3>
    <p> You agree that you are responsible for your own use of the Service, for
    any posts you make, and for any consequences thereof. You agree that you
    will use the Service in compliance with all applicable local, state,
    national, and international laws, rules and regulations, including any laws
    regarding the transmission of technical data exported from your country of
    residence and all United States export control laws.</p>
    <p>You agree to abide by the BendTech Content Policy (below) and the rules
    and restrictions therein. Although we may attempt to notify you when major
    changes are made to the BendTech Content Policy, you should periodically
    review the most up-to-date version. BendTech may, in its sole discretion,
    modify or revise the BendTech Content Policy at any time, and you agree to
    be bound by such modifications or revisions.</p>
    <p>Violation of any of the foregoing, including the BendTech Content
    Policy, may result in immediate termination of this Agreement, and may
    subject you to state and federal penalties and other legal consequences.
    BendTech reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to investigate
    your use of the Service in order to (a) determine whether a violation of
    the Agreement has occurred or (b) comply with any applicable law,
    regulation, legal process or governmental request.</p>
    <p>Much of the content of BendTech.com -- including the
    contents of specific postings -- is provided by and is the responsibility
    of the person or people who made such postings. BendTech does not monitor
    the content of BendTech.com, and takes no responsibility for such content.
    Instead, BendTech merely provides access to such content as a service to
    you.</p>
    <p>As with any unmonitored service, BendTech.com may carry offensive,
    harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate material, or in some cases,
    postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. We expect
    that you will use caution and common sense and exercise proper judgment
    when using BendTech.com.</p>
    <p>BendTech does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the
    truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any communications posted via the
    Service or endorse any opinions expressed via the Service. You acknowledge
    that any reliance on material posted via the Service will be at your own
    risk.</p>

    <h3>Privacy.</h3>
    <p> As a condition of using the Service, you agree to the terms of the
    BendTech Privacy Policy (Below), which may be updated from time to time, as
    expressed in the most recent version that exists at the time of your use.
    You agree that BendTech may access or disclose your personal information,
    including the content of your communications, if BendTech is required to do
    so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request
    (such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as
    otherwise provided in these Terms of Service and the general BendTech
    Privacy Policy. Personal information collected by BendTech may be stored
    and processed in the United States or any other country in which BendTech
    or its agents maintain facilities.  By using the Service, you consent
    to any such transfer of information outside of your country.</p>
    <h3>General Practices Regarding Use and Storage.</h3>
    <p> You agree that BendTech has no responsibility or liability for the
    deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other
    communications maintained by the Service. BendTech retains the right to
    create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time with or
    without notice.</p>
    <h3>Content of the Service.</h3>
    <p> BendTech takes no responsibility for third-party content (including,
    without limitation, any viruses or other disabling features), nor does
    BendTech have any obligation to monitor such third-party content. BendTech
    reserves the right at all times to remove or refuse to distribute any
    content on the Service, such as content which violates the terms of this
    Agreement. BendTech also reserves the right to access, read, preserve, and
    disclose any information as it reasonably believes is necessary to (a)
    satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental
    request, (b) enforce this Agreement, including investigation of potential
    violations hereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud,
    security or technical issues, (d) respond to user support requests, or (e)
    protect the rights, property or safety of BendTech, its users and the
    public. BendTech will not be responsible or liable for the exercise or
    non-exercise of its rights under this Agreement.</p>
    <h3>Intellectual Property Rights.</h3>
    <p> BendTech's Intellectual Property Rights. You acknowledge that BendTech
    owns all right, title and interest in and to the Service, including all
    intellectual property rights (the &quot;BendTech Rights&quot;). BendTech
    Rights are protected by U.S. and international intellectual property laws.
    Accordingly, you agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or
    create derivative works from the Service. You also agree that you will not
    use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor
    or copy any content from the Service. As described immediately below,
    BendTech Rights do not include third-party content used as part of the
    Service, including the content of communications appearing on the
    Service.</p>

    <h3>BendTech claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted,
    posted or displayed by you on or through BendTech services.</h3>
    <p>Your Intellectual Property Rights.  You or a third party licensor, as
    appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you
    submit, post or display on or through BendTech services and you are
    responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By submitting,
    posting or displaying Content on or through BendTech services which are
    intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant BendTech a
    worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, publish and
    distribute such Content on BendTech services for the purpose of displaying
    and distributing BendTech services. BendTech furthermore reserves the right
    to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Content in its sole
    discretion.</p>
    <p>You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and
    authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content
    submitted.</p>
    <p>You may choose to submit, post, and display any materials on or through
    the BendTech service under a public license , whether by manually marking
    your materials as such or using BendTech service tools to do so. For
    avoidance of doubt, BendTech is not a party to any such public license
    between you and any third party. Also, for avoidance of doubt, BendTech may
    choose to exercise the rights granted under (a) the public license or
    licenses, if any, you apply to your materials or (b) this Agreement.</p>

    <h3>No Resale of the Service.</h3>
    <p> Unless expressly authorized in writing by BendTech, you agree not to
    reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any
    commercial purposes (a) any portion of the Service, (b) use of the Service,
    or (c) access to the Service.</p>

    <h3>Publicity.</h3>
    <p> Any use of BendTech's trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos,
    domain names, and other distinctive brand features (&quot;Brand
    Features&quot;), including &quot;BendTech,&quot;,  must be in compliance
    with this Agreement and in compliance with BendTech's then current Brand
    Features use guidelines, and any content contained or referenced therein,
    which may be found at the following URL:  <a
    href="http://www.bendtech.com/permissions/guidelines.html">http://www.bendtech.com/permissions/guidelines.html</a>
    (or such other URL BendTech may provide from time to time).</p>

    <h3>Representations and Warranties.</h3>
    <p> You represent and warrant that (a) all of the information provided by
    you to BendTech to participate in the Service is correct and current; and
    (b) you have all necessary right, power and authority to enter into this
    Agreement and to perform the acts required of you hereunder.</p>

    <h3>Termination; Suspension.</h3>
    <p> BendTech may, in its sole discretion, at any time and for any reason,
    terminate the Service, terminate this Agreement, suspend or terminate
    your account, or remove your content. In the event of termination or
    removal, your account and content will be disabled and you may not be
    granted access to your account or any files or other content contained in
    your account although residual copies of information may remain in our
    system for some time for back-up purposes.</p>

    <h3>Indemnification.</h3>
    <p> You agree to hold harmless and indemnify BendTech, and its
    subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from and against
    any third-party claim arising from or in any way related to your use of the
    Service, including any liability or expense arising from all claims,
    losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation
    costs and attorneys' fees, of every kind and nature. In such a case,
    BendTech will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or
    action.</p>

    <h3>Entire Agreement.</h3>
    <p> This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and
    BendTech and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior
    agreements between you and BendTech. You also may be subject to additional
    terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other
    BendTech services, affiliate services, third-party content or third-party
    software.</p>

    <h3>Waiver and Severability of Terms.</h3>
    <p> The failure of BendTech to exercise or enforce any right or provision
    of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or
    provision. If any provision of the Terms of Service is found by a court of
    competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that
    the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as
    reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of
    Service remain in full force and effect.</p>

    <h3>Statute of Limitations.</h3>
    <p> You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any
    claim or cause of action arising of or related to use of BendTech services
    or the Terms of Service must be filed within one (1) year after such claim
    or cause of action arose or be forever barred.</p>

    <h3>Choice of Law; Jurisdiction; Forum.</h3>
    <p> These Terms of Service will be governed by and construed in accordance
    with the laws of the State of Oregon, without giving effect to its conflict
    of laws provisions or your actual state or country of residence.  Any
    claims, legal proceeding or litigation arising in connection with the
    Service will be brought solely in Deschutes County, California, and you
    consent to the jurisdiction of such courts.</p>

    <h3>Copyright Information.</h3>
    <p> It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that
    comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe that your
    copyright has been infringed on the Service, please contact BendTech.com
    directly.</p>

  <h2>Content Policy</h2>
    <p>BendTech is a free service for technical professionals in Central Oregon and regions beyond.</p>
    <p>We respect our users' ownership of and responsibility for the content
    they choose to share. It is our belief that censoring this content is
    contrary to the fundamental principle of freedom of expression.</p>
    <p>However, in order to maintain the quality and relevance of this service
    to it's intended audience, we need to curb abuses that threaten our ability
    to provide this service and value it provides. As a result, there are some
    boundaries on the type of content that can be hosted with BendTech. The
    boundaries we've defined are those that both comply with legal requirements
    and that serve to enhance the service as a whole.</p>
    <h3>Content Boundaries</h3>
    <p>Our content policies play an important role in maintaining the quality
    of this service.  Please respect these guidelines. From time to time, we
    may change our content policies so please check back here.</p>
    <p><strong>PORNOGRAPHY AND OBSCENITY:</strong>Users may not publish content
    that is pornographic, obscene, or explicit in nature, as deemed by
    BendTech.</p>
    <p><strong>HATEFUL CONTENT:</strong> Users may not publish material that
    promotes hate toward groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion,
    disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender
    identity.</p>
    <p><strong>VIOLENT CONTENT:</strong> Users may not publish direct threats
    of violence against any person or group of people.</p>
    <p><strong>COPYRIGHT:</strong> It is our policy to respond to clear notices
    of alleged copyright infringement. For more information, or to report copyright infringement, please contact BendTech directly.</p>
    <p><strong>PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION:</strong> We do not allow
    the unauthorized publishing of people's private and confidential
    information, such as credit card numbers, Social Security Numbers, and
    driver's and other license numbers.</p>
    <p><strong>IMPERSONATION:</strong> We do not allow impersonation of others
    through our services in a manner that is intended to or does mislead or
    confuse others.</p>
    <p><strong>UNLAWFUL USE OF SERVICES:</strong> Our products and services
    should not be used for unlawful purposes or for promotion of dangerous and
    illegal activities. Your content may be removed, your account may be
    terminated and you may be reported to the appropriate authorities.</p>
    <p><strong>SPAM, MALICIOUS CODES AND VIRUSES:</strong> We do not allow
    spamming or transmitting malware and viruses.</p>

  <h2>Privacy Policy</h2>
    <h3>Personal information and other data we collect</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>We may combine personal information collected from you with
      information from other BendTech services or third parties to provide a
      better user experience, including customizing content for you.</li>
      <li>BendTech uses browser cookies and other technologies to enhance your
      online experience and to learn about how you use BendTech services in
      order to improve the quality of our services.</li>
      <li>BendTech's servers automatically record information when you visit
      our website or use some of our products, including the URL, IP address,
      browser type and language, and the date and time of your request.</li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Uses</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>We may use personal information to provide the services you've
      requested, including services that display customized content and
      advertising.</li>
      <li>We may also use personal information for auditing, research and
      analysis to operate and improve BendTech technologies and services.
      <li>We may share aggregated non-personal information with third parties
      outside of BendTech.</li>
      <li>When we use third parties to assist us in processing your personal
      information, we require that they comply with our Privacy Policy and any
      other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.</li>
      <li>We may also share information with third parties in limited
      circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing
      fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and
      services.</li>
    </ul>

    <h3>Your choices</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>You may decline to provide personal information to us and/or refuse
      cookies in your browser, although some of our features or services may not
      function properly as a result.
      <li>We make good faith efforts to provide you access to your personal
      information upon request and to let you correct such data if it is
      inaccurate and delete it, when reasonably possible.
    </ul>
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